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This one has almost everything you can hope for with regards to a finale. Bar fight! Ambushes! Escapes! Flirtations! Old friends! First Cousins! Unitards! Sacrifices! I enjoyed it, but half way through things get as intense as you could hope for.

Don't be fooled by the Final Episode tags - this is really more like a season finale, and there will be more. That said, I am disappointed with some of the revelations - or more accurately, the lack thereof. There's one Scalzi's been stringing along since the very first episode, and it's a bit frustrating to still know very little about it.

Dufris's narration, as usual, was excellent. He provided levity when necessary, and expertly helped ratchet up the tension.

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Its Official, it a great series

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Let me say this book is all about earth and its future, you are going to love this book if you are a fan of this series. Its the best book.

Looking forward to see what will happen in the upcoming series .

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Enjoyable, Short Sci-Fi

STORY - This is definitely one of the better books in this series of short stories. The main characters from the other books have all joined together in this one, and "The B Team" from Book 1 finally is acknowledged as a topnotch A team. There is some good sci-fi action -- attack upon space stations, humans escaping into shuttles, good stuff. If Scalzi writes other books in this series, I will consider hearing them. I haven't completely enjoyed this series as a whole, as some of the books have been quite boring, but the saga has gained speed and I'm interested in how the human race will survive this division amongst themselves. Scalzi's irritating writing style of identifying the speakers every time they open their mouths is not quite as bothersome in this book, though it used to drive me INSANE!

PERFORMANCE - Okay. Doesn't add or subtract from the story.

OVERALL- Good book. The problem is that it doesn't really stand alone so you kinda need to hear the other 12 short stories that come before this one and -- well, they haven't been as good as this one.

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Dave

20-04-13

What, that's it?

I was surprised that this was the last “episode” of the book because the story just…stopped. I was initially intrigued by the episodic nature of this “book”, but I don’t think I will do this again. Keeping track of the 13 parts on my MP3 player is a pain. I liked the different perspectives portrayed through the episodes, but it seemed like a couple of them were just thrown in to fill out the “book”. William Dufris is a fantastic narrator, and I love the “Old Man’s War” universe, but there is a reason why books with multiple perspectives are 40 hours long. In general, I enjoy Scalzi’s stories, but someone should do a word count to see how many times the word “said” is used in his work. My wife will no longer listen to his books because of the repetition of that word. It seems to show up about every 10 seconds, which makes about 3600 times in a 10 hour book. I’m sure this is an exaggeration… well, maybe not THAT sure. Enough said.

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5 out of 5 stars

John

16-04-13

Scalzi is without equal.

I've read every thing Scalzi has written since I stumbled across "The Little Fuzzy". Bare in mind, I don't typically like Science Fiction, I'm a really old man. Scalzi is the only exception. He writes with consideration for people who are not young techno-wizards who can visualize anything tech and ascribe an actual entity to a verbal description. In other words; I could understand every paragraph. His plots are intriguing; his characterization is complete; and his stories are very interesting and fast paced. Last but truly best is Scalzi's sense of humor. His Characters have great humor; making all of his books fun to read. I would really like to crawl through Scalzi's brain. That would be a very interesting and fun trip. Really, I have loved every book he has written and I'm waiting for the next. Lastly, I watched Will Wheaten grow up on T.V., but didn't expect to ever hear him as a narrator with that whinny voice on STNG. I was so wrong. He is a great narrator with flexibility, humor, expression, and a depth that blows me away.

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5 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

Karlyn Keller

09-09-17

Read them in order

I enjoyed the series more as I went through each episode. At first I struggled because it seemed like random stories set in this universe. But as it continued and I realized it was interwoven story lines I enjoyed them more. The main characters were enjoyable. It's pretty traditional sci fi fare but still worth the read.

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David D. Schneider

20-10-16

This story, unfortunately, is totally implausible 😱

5 star great. 4 star good. 3 star OK. 2 star poor. 1 star awful or unbelievable. _________________________________________________Still worth a listen but for the Colonial Union to have essentially NO security around the Earth Station Space Station while meeting with all the highest statesmen of ALL the nations of earth -- a Station that has apparently NO defenses of its own -- is ludicrous . . . __________________________________And another plot inconsistency. Robotic skip drones used for long distance communication need a "safe" skip zone -- which the author has a character say is two hours by radio frequency away from the Space Station -- but the enemy ships (which are of the same technology as our ships) (16 of them) skip directly into existence a short distance from the Space Station. _______bad writing consistency and I'm disappointed 😱

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2 out of 5 stars

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2 out of 5 stars

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No resolution, felt like filler...

Lots of wise-cracking but not a lot of plot in this segment. I heard this was the last one, but nothing is really resolved. Kind of felt like filler.

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Dennis

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Very Good BUT this CAN'T be the end!

I started to like these very short 13 books. But as the 13 book came to an end, there was ahole lot more to write about, This seems to just be the begining to a very large saga! Mr. Scalzi don't keep your fans waiting!! MORE!